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And Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. And he split the wood for the burnt-offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.

And Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, My father. And he said, Here I am, my son. And he said, Look, the fire and the wood. But where is the lamb for a burnt-offering?

And Abraham said, God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt-offering, my son. So they went both of them together.

And he said, Don't lay your hand on the lad, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, seeing you haven't withheld your son, your only son, from me.

And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and noticed a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son.

And Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan. And Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

And he communed with them, saying, If it is your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in the midst of you for a possession of a burying-place.

to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the sons of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.

And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure to Abraham for a possession of a burying-place by the sons of Heth.

And I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.

But you shall go to my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.

Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my nativity, and who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land. He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down your pitcher, I pray you, that I may drink. And she shall say, Drink, and I will give your camels to drink also. Let the same be she that you have appointed for your slave Isaac. And thereby shall I know that you have shown kindness to my master.

And when she was done giving him to drink, she said, I will draw for your camels also, until they are done drinking.

And she hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.

And it came to pass, as the camels were done drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,

and said, Whose daughter are you? Tell me, I pray you. Is there room in your father's house for us to lodge in?

And he said, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving-kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me in the way to the house of my master's brothers.

And he said, Come in, you blessed of Yahweh. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.